Antonyms for down-and-out

Grammar : Adj

Spell : doun-uh nd-out, -uh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaʊn əndˈaʊt, -ən

Definition of down-and-out

adj destitute

Example sentences :

I'm on my uppers for fair this time—eligible for the down-and-out club.
Extract from : « The Easiest Way » by Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow

Or by bold combinations: down-and-out, up-state, flat-footed.
Extract from : « The American Language » by Henry L. Mencken

Of course Garrison had been to the dogs during the past year—what down-and-out jockey has not gone there?
Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson

And the speculators on the inside graduate to the down-and-out class if they play long enough.
Extract from : « Evening Round Up » by William Crosbie Hunter

But that was nothin' to the down-and-out slump I found him in next night, when I goes around for my writin' lesson and so on.
Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford

Had about as much sympathy for a down-and-out, Steele did, as you'd find milk in a turnip.
Extract from : « Shorty McCabe on the Job » by Sewell Ford

A man's a millionaire to-day and a member of the down-and-out club to-morrow.
Extract from : « Jack and the Check Book » by John Kendrick Bangs

There was business to be managed—no dillydallying in this day and generation, unless one would join the down-and-out club!
Extract from : « Making People Happy » by Thompson Buchanan

Fane spoke up languidly: "It rather looks as though we were the down-and-out delegation at present; doesn't it, Orchil?"
Extract from : « The Younger Set » by Robert W. Chambers

I went on down the street feeling almost like a man again and not a down-and-out ex-convict.
Extract from : « Kentucky in American Letters, v. 2 of 2 » by John Wilson Townsend

Synonyms for down-and-out

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